Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-06-04

have reproduced the above verses mainly
In illustration OF y truth wish i could i'm
press upon all young mon and young women
who Imagine they can write poetry. Per.
hays you csn-out don't! The truth IL thus
dellcatsy Expressed by DR.. Hnimes In " Ou z
Atlantic, where, writing OF ecsne ON the
Avon, he asys: " II would bo easy 10 write
verses about u, hut unwritten poems are 70
much bettsr!" so they ara. How infinite
or about Yes! J" would sound than any
number OF verses written like the above
Don't you think sO too!
Mentioning DR.. Holmss's delightful papers
describing his recent visit n England, re-
minds ns also that no poem that even he
could have written on the subject would be
bali % eoyoyaole ~ the papers are in their
present form. But then who elS6 can write
such prose ~ he eau, mean in such chatty,
familiar, confidential style, that at once en- :.
lists not only every readers personal inter.
ess but each ones individual sympathy, ~ II
he were being treated tos special tete q .tete
with the dear Old autOcrst?
1t Is by having on its list OF regular con.
tributors such writer's A. Holmes, Lowell,
Whittier, Fiske, Scuddsr, Hardy, Edith
Thomas, Sarah Orns Jewett Olive Thorne
Miller and others as eminent all Of whom
have articles or poems In the volume that
closes with it's June number, that The At.
td"nc Mont!ty 30 easily maintains It's place
~ prominently the literary magazine Of
America. For to day ~ much ~ ever the
Atlantic il the one American mag that
appeals 10 the broadcast culture aud most re-.
fined literary taste OF the country. And It 10
content Herewith. Other magazines we may
want for their articles on science, theology,
philosophy, art, OF travel, history, and remiil
n I'M ut h,pk Eoe n ho
highest and best literature proper We 20
snd can only 20 to the Atlantic. This Il ia
domain. In this 1t IL peerless. And through
It has done more for the education and right
culture OF American literary taste than can
be calculated or expressed.
In reading DR.. Holmes l have more than
once been amused by his andisguised pre-.
jndice against and contempt for hon G opstby
The genial, large minded, aud catholic man
1t letters always shrinks suddenly into the
narrow, common place, bigOt - sOOn ~ this
professional topic 10 touched upon. Talk
about Odium Mcotogicum 1t In nothing to
the venonous Odiam medicum. Tue rsncOr
aud bitterness, bigOtry ana blind unreason.
ab!eness Of theOlOgians, is easily matched,
more than matched, by the irrational preju
dice aud determined blindness, ~ we'll ss
the biting hatred, OF the opposing factions in
the world OF science.
Road for instance this by o. w. Holmes,
NJ. D., in his June article. He is writing OF
y visit to Great Malvern. "Ths room was
shown 70, " he says, "loOked out upon an
spothecsry's shop, and from the window OF
that shop stared out upon me . plaster bust
which recognized ~ that OF Samuel HNhne-
man. was glad to change to another apart.
ment, but 1t may be comfort to some OF bis
American followers to know that traces OF
hon9opsthy-or what still continues 70 call
itself so-survivs IN the Old World, which
We have understood was pretty we'll tired OF
" The :" we " here can only refer to the
Massachusetts, Stats Medical Association OF
the }" old schOOl, " or Irregular actitiOuers, -
or allopathists. For everybody else knows
n,. tnst home holn@ 1Pathy was never stronger In the
Old world ~ In the New than Il IL to-day
aud that It's spread hes been and still 10 stead
ily increasing, In the Old II anything even
more than In the New World.
To read such words ~ those quoted, there
fore, excitss an unbiased readers risibilitie.
IN about the same way - when he reads tn,
New York Independents weekly psgelouf
sssertions, arguments, demonstrations, snC
general siiliness, affirming that Progressiv,
Orthodoxy, or the New Theology Z. som,
call It, u not held In any known church, Il
only locsl sdection ot some Andovs
"specu!at0rs, and of no signiticance what
ever Yes. traces Of hOmt Bopathy survIv,
In the Old World, just % there are 0 \ few
who hold 70 the new theology outside Q
Andover and New England. II may not b,
80 comfort" TO DR.. Holmes nor TO 7Ae IN
dependent to know, but II nevertheless ID
fact, that the former 10 case OF the /" sur
vtvsl OF the fttest " ~ truly % the latter vii
be one OF the triumph OF " the remnant " o
which Matthew Arnold spoke 90 wholesome
ly In one oi his American lectures. Unles
indeed the words OF Lowell are Q mistak
when he says:
"9et but the truth once uttered, and lis lik
A star newborn. that drops into It's place,
| And which, once circling In Its placid round,
Not all the tumult OF the earth can shake. {"
Just preceding DR.. Holiness charming q
ticls II one OF tho valuable historical paper
| OF John Fiske, In which In his characters
ticaliy clear and forcible style he gives q
accpunt OF "The Completed Work Of th
Federal Constitution" II u sxoeediugly In
tsrssting reading, but then what hes Prof
FskssveI written that II notf want 70 quot
only the closing paragraph, becauss II refer
TO ono In whose every word and deed sps
cial interest hes been revived, q lsast here I
! Lancaster, bscAnse Of his early eopnsctio